My Daughter...On Her Eighteenth Birthday!

I love you!

Ah, summertime at the beach...

filling up senses...

fleeting, it calls on us to make the most of its briefness...

Front Porch Creature

There is a really weird spider on our front porch. It is only the size of my pinky nail, but boy is it creepy. I googled black and white spider with horns and came up with some interesting sites.... I'm wondering if this could be the same type of creature:


UPDATE: I received an answer from Dr. Joseph Culin of Clemson Entomology Center! Thanks Dr. Culin!!! (maybe I will email him back and ask if he would like to "have" my porch creature...)
"Kim
I think it is what is called the star bellied orb weaver, Anantheperia stellata. Most of the images in Google Images are not as white as yours is but most that I’ve seen are bright white.
Joe Culin"

School Projects & The Wonder of Krylon Paint

To make a Pueblo Adobe Model for his social studies project, my son used boxes, glue, some sand, twigs, backyard cactus prickly plants and Krylon Make It Stone Texture Spray Paint! This stuff was like spraying wet beach sand and pieces of shell. Really pretty cool.


So what do you think? Does it look like an adobe house to you? Hope so! :) (Actually, it makes me think of a house-shaped cake, but trust me, it really wouldn't taste so good!)

I love summer!